Page 85 - 14 The Three Messages

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
could accept the proffered light and truth,

and reach the higher attainment, or they could

reject it, and lose their spirituality and favor

with God, or, in other words, experience a

moral fall. The truth which God saw fit to use

as an instrument in this work was the first

message. The hour of God’s Judgment come,

and the approximate second advent of Christ,

was the doctrine preached. After listening

long enough to see the blessing that attended

the doctrine, and the good results that flowed

from it, the churches, as a whole, rejected it

with scorn and scoffing. They were thereby

tested; for they then plainly betrayed the fact

that their hearts were with the world, not with

the Lord, and that they preferred to have it so.

But the message would have healed the evils

then existing in the religions world. The

prophet exclaims, perhaps with reference to